Quiz of the week
1) Snails and slugs belong to the same class of molluscs: which one?
2) What grand Elizabethan house in Lincolnshire hosts one of the world’s most prestigious horse trials?
3) Britain’s Viking Age is generally considered to begin with the 793AD raid of a monastery on which island?
4) Mrs Danvers is a character in which British 20th-century novel?
5) Tamworth, Middle White and Gloucestershire Old Spot are all breeds of which animal?
Word of the week
Tesserarian (adjective)
Pertaining to dice or gaming
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE June 16, 1923
THE contrast in the development of French and English painting has always been great,
